On September 14, the 2026 IAA Transportation exhibition opened in Hannover, Germany. Foton Motor made a major appearance with the Auman Galaxy 9 hybrid heavy truck and a range of complete vehicles and self-developed core components. As a backbone of China’s commercial vehicle industry, Foton Auman has深耕 the heavy truck segment for years, completing a full layout across platform architecture, product systems, scenario coverage and intelligent empowerment, with each product fully validated in the domestic market. The appearance of the Auman Galaxy 9 at the Hannover exhibition, facing the world’s highest standards, is not only a concentrated display of Foton Auman’s technical strength, but also a solid step for Foton Auman heavy trucks to deepen the domestic market and compete on the world stage.
Global Showcase: Deepening the Global Premium Market with Systematic New-Energy Technology Strength
From decades of deep cultivation in the commercial vehicle sector to the cumulative global delivery of the 13 millionth vehicle, Foton Motor has completed the leap from local rise to business coverage of more than 140 countries and regions. At the press conference of this Hannover exhibition, Foton completed the delivery of its 13 millionth vehicle worldwide — the Auman Galaxy 9 heavy truck. This model has completed real-world testing in Spain and, with outstanding performance and quality, has successfully entered Europe’s premium long-haul logistics market, breaking the brand barriers of overseas premium long-haul logistics and becoming a benchmark product for Chinese heavy trucks entering the global premium commercial vehicle market.
Today, Foton Auman has built systematic advantages in the new-energy heavy truck segment. At the product level, the Auman Galaxy and Auman Starway new-energy heavy trucks are built on the Galaxy New-Energy Twin Smart Architecture developed independently and through forward engineering. The core modules of the dedicated Galaxy pure-electric platform are exclusively designed around new-energy characteristics, completing the full technology route layout of pure electric, hybrid and hydrogen fuel, building a complete product matrix spanning multiple series and covering highway and engineering scenarios. At the core technology level, forward engineering brings deep vehicle coordination: the VCU, together with the Galaxy domain controller, coordinates body, powertrain and other systems, balancing functional independence with cross-domain linkage, improving efficiency and reducing energy consumption at the system level. Foton has mastered key technologies including high-efficiency flat-wire oil-cooled motors, high-efficiency lightweight electric drive axles, full-domain silicon carbide control modules, megawatt-level charging and full-domain energy consumption control, achieving high integration of three-electric systems and core components. At the scenario adaptation level, Foton Auman’s new-energy heavy trucks are specially optimized for different working conditions such as long-haul trunk lines and mining transport, matching differentiated transport needs with pure electric, hybrid and hydrogen fuel routes, ensuring stable, reliable and long-lasting operation in all scenarios. From self-developed architecture to independent components, from full technology route layout to full scenario coverage, Foton Auman’s new-energy heavy trucks have built a systematic industry advantage — this is also the deep confidence behind Foton Auman’s entry into the global premium market.
Hard-Core Strength: Building a Global Competitive Foundation with Full-Stack Self-Developed Core Technologies
The Hannover exhibition is one of the most influential international events in the global commercial vehicle field, and the appearance of the Auman Galaxy 9 hybrid heavy truck is a concentrated display of Chinese heavy truck technology on the world stage. Against the backdrop of increasingly strict global carbon emission regulations and accelerating energy structure transformation, Foton Auman’s new-energy heavy trucks achieve clean and low-carbon operation while ensuring the power and efficiency of long-haul transport, providing a practically feasible Chinese solution for the green transformation of global commercial vehicles.
Facing the global green logistics transformation trend, Foton Auman’s new-energy heavy trucks build their foundation with self-developed super electric drive and high-efficiency flat-wire oil-cooled motors, with motor efficiency up to 97.7%. Combined with full-domain high-voltage silicon carbide control, they ensure abundant power reserve for both high-load climbing and high-speed cruising. Energy supply defines the operational boundary: relying on the forward-developed dedicated battery platform, they achieve flexible combinations of 400 to 800 kWh across a wide capacity range, while simultaneously deploying megawatt-level charging and multi-gun fast charging, so that operational needs under different transport radii and charging conditions can all find suitable solutions. Operating cost is the core concern of users: the VCU intelligent management system treats the three-electric systems as a whole for efficient coordination, combined with ultra-low wind resistance design and high-efficiency regenerative braking, bringing total vehicle energy consumption down to ≤1.1 kWh/km. Reliability ultimately relies on safety as the bottom line: the integral high-strength drive axle has a B10 life of 1.6 million kilometers, with AEBS, ESC, FWC and other active safety configurations providing layered protection, validated by cumulative road tests of 2 million kilometers.
With power, energy, consumption and safety interlinked, and with the full technology routes of pure electric, hybrid and hydrogen fuel, Foton Auman’s new-energy heavy trucks can comprehensively cover diverse logistics scenarios including trunk transport, long and short branch transport, express delivery and cold-chain transport, meeting the core demands of domestic and international users for efficiency, energy saving and reliability, and laying a solid technical foundation for Chinese new-energy heavy trucks to compete in the global market.
Aiming for the Future: Participating in the New Landscape of Global Commercial Vehicle Competition with Technology
At present, the global commercial vehicle industry is at a critical period of energy structure transformation. The Auman Galaxy 9’s appearance at the Hannover exhibition and its delivery to Spain not only mark the entry of Foton Auman’s heavy truck business globalization into a new stage where technical exchange and market expansion are equally important, but also prove that Foton Auman has the capability to provide new-energy heavy truck products and solutions to the global market. Looking ahead, in the face of the globalization trend of new-energy heavy trucks and the deepening green transformation of global logistics, Foton Auman will continue to improve its new-energy technology routes and product matrix, steadily advance its global market layout, serve global users with mature and reliable new-energy heavy trucks, and continue to contribute Chinese technical strength to the green development of the global commercial vehicle industry.
